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July 2, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks, great to have you back.
Great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limbaugh moving forward here on the most listened to radio talk show in America, the most talked about radio talk show in America, the most talked-about host, the most maligned host.
I mean, if I can come if Obama can complain, I can.
Well, he's out there whining.
The highway bill, hey, this isn't socialism.
What a great rationale for doing it.
Yeah, I've got it here somewhere.
I mean, I'm gonna find you just a second.
But he just, it just boggles the mind what this guy is out there saying.
It's not crazy.
It's not socialism.
It's not the imperial presidency.
No laws are broken.
It says building roads and bridges like we've been doing.
No, we haven't.
We were gonna do it with the stimulus, but the money went to the unions.
He said, Middle class families can't wait for Republican Congress to do stuff, so sue me.
As long as they're doing nothing, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna apologize for trying to do something.
See, he really cares.
He really wants to help people.
See, the Republicans are just mean spirit, and they don't like people, they don't care about people, and just they're sleazy, and if people die, they don't care.
What a rationale.
It's not crazy.
It's not socialism, it's not the imperial president.
It must be if he's up there denying it.
I'm telling you, folks, we're in the guy's head.
I don't care what else.
Readings, great to have you as a phone number, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Just before I get back to that in detail, I want to just a little bit more here on this story of 85% of Obamacare inconsistencies.
Because the bottom line is they can't be fixed.
The regime is saying they can't be fixed.
And when I first saw the headline and had no idea the details of the story, I thought that what the headline meant was 85% of Obamacare can't be fixed.
Because it's all inconsistent.
So when I read the story, I was, I don't know, somewhat relieved, but probably short-sightedly so.
But by their own admission, regime officials cannot resolve 85% of 2.9 million inconsistencies on applications for Obamacare, even after nine months of trying.
Most of the problems involved certifying citizenship and income, which are key components of the national health plan.
So 85% of 2.9 million inconsistencies involving citizenship.
Certifying can't be fixed.
And I've I've read in another story over a million of these inconsistencies involve illegal immigrants.
Only 425,000 problematic applications have been resolved out of 2.9 million that states and federal exchange reported.
Only citizens are eligible for Obamacare, and only people at certain income levels are eligible for tax credits and subsidies.
But in 77% of the applications under scrutiny, federal records differed from what applicants submitted.
On those two key questions, how does that happen?
How does an applicant say something and what gets entered is different?
The applicant doesn't have access to the government computer or the government website.
All they can do is fill in the form, fill in the blanks, and then after that, somebody's changing it.
Federal records differed from what applicants submitted on the two key qualifications, citizenship and income level.
Let me spell this out for you.
Most of the people signed up are the people who defraud the system in any other government program.
That's that's who most of the signatories of this or that the applicants are.
And they're lying about Citizenship and income.
But the government says it's committed.
It's committed to verifying the eligibility of consumers who apply for enrollment.
Yep, yep, they're committed to it.
But they say these inconsistencies can't be fixed.
I it just it's it's incomprehensible.
It's just beyond the ability to comprehend.
This the degree it's see, this is not incompetence.
I mean, some of it is the bureaucratic level, but the end result of this is not incompetence.
This is this is purely by design.
And you know how you know that when they say it can't be fixed.
When they say that these inconsistencies cannot be resolved, that's all you need.
How about this?
87% of the 8 million enrollees are getting subsidies.
Which now do you think 87% of the people that have signed up qualify?
Or is the government qualifying them for them after they sign up?
The average subsidy is 75% of the policy.
75% of the cost is the average subsidy, and 80% of the 8 million enrollees are having 75% of their costs paid for by taxpayers.
That's the way to analyze that.
It's a disaster.
In a normal world, it would be embarrassing.
And in the real world, so many heads would roll here that there wouldn't be anybody left at this agency to run it.
They would have all been fired.
The whole thing would have been shut down and they would start it over.
Obama threatens to go it alone if Congress does not help fix the highways.
President Obama's speech yesterday was intended to call Congress to action on replenishing a fund for state and federal highway projects.
Instead, it turned into a political rant against House Republicans with Obama saying he'll proceed without them if he has to.
The highway trust fund is due to run out in 58 days.
That supposedly will put 877,000 jobs and 28 billion dollars in U.S. exports at risk.
The fund is rapidly depleting due to declining gas tax revenues.
A problem Obama wants to fix by eliminating corporate tax breaks.
There aren't any corporate tax breaks.
More corporations.
I had a story in the stack the other day.
Walgreen has, it's a convoluted relationship with Walgreen.
Walgreen has, as officially, ownership-wise, aligned itself with a foreign company, making it foreign so it can escape or lower its taxes.
Apple has, you've heard they got 150, 160 billion dollars in the bank.
Over a hundred billion of it is overseas.
They're not going to bring it back because of the high corporate tax rate.
There aren't any corporate tax breaks.
The only corporate tax breaks are the Obamacare waivers that he has handed out to various friends and donors of his.
So he says he's gonna go it alone.
He's just gonna if Congress doesn't act, he's gonna go it alone.
Why doesn't anybody remember?
We shouldn't need, we shouldn't be in this crisis with our roads and bridges, 700,000 highway.
What happened to the great stimulus of 2009?
That was that was nearly 900 billion dollars, and we were gonna fix the roads and repair the bridges and rebuild the schools, and it was gonna be utopia.
And we're gonna create all these new jobs.
Where do what happened to all of that?
So now here we are, six years into this regime, and we're told that 700,000 jobs are at stake.
Because the highway trust fund is about to be emptied or bankrupt, not replenished.
Here is Obama speaking about the give you the what sound about number that I give you?
12.
That's right.
Here it is.
This is Obama.
This is uh yesterday afternoon washing Georgetown Waterfront Park.
If this Congress does not act by the end of the summer, the highway trust fund will run out.
Won't be any money there.
All told, nearly 700,000 jobs could be at risk next year.
That would be like Congress threatening to lay off the entire population of Denver or Seattle or Boston.
That's a lot of people.
It would be a bad idea.
They also said some other things.
That in itself is typical.
If the Republicans don't act, we're going to lay off the city of Denver.
Why is the trust fund running dry?
What kind of incompetence is leading to the is because the gas tax?
Well, who's responsible for gas tax revenues plummeting?
I'll tell you who, the environmentalist wackos.
They're demanding everybody go out and drive these little cheap cars that don't get any gas miles, so people are buying less gasoline.
The price of gasoline going up is also a factor.
They're just there a hundred million people not working in this comp in this country.
They don't have the money to be driving around like they used to.
They're not using as much gasoline.
It's not because corporations aren't paying their fair share.
It's because consumption of the product is down.
And those that are still using it, many of them are using less because they have followed orders from the regime.
Because they think they're destroying the planet, so now they're going to save the planet by driving around these little hybrids and these other little death traps, thinking they're being good citizens, and instead they are depleting the highway trust fund because they're not paying enough in taxes.
They tell you that you're wasting water, you're gonna cut back on your water use, ditto your electricity, whatever.
Uh, and and uh gasoline, the gasoline tax at the state level and so forth, and you end up using less to conserve and save the planet, and then they find out they're getting less tax revenue, so they come back and raise your taxes somewhere else after you have done what they said, after you have dutifully obeyed the good citizenship command from your government to use less of this destructive polluting product known as gasoline.
They end up with less money, so it's your fault no matter what you do, you're gonna pay no matter what you do.
Then Obama also said, We're not spending enough on the things that help our economy grow.
Really?
What what what does Washington do that helps the economy grow?
I'm getting blue in the face.
Saying Washington government does not create wealth.
It destroys it.
It confiscates it.
It redistributes it, but it does not create wealth.
We're already spending a trillion dollars that we don't have half a trillion to a trillion every year that we don't have.
What more can they do?
What more damage can they do?
So he says we're not spending enough on the things that help our economy grow.
The things that help businesses move products.
How he doesn't know the first thing about moving products.
What does he know about it?
He has never done anything but resent the people who know how to do it.
We're not spending enough on the things that help workers get to the job.
What in the name of Sam Hill?
What do we have to spend to get people to the job?
What are we not spending enough on there?
And then during his critique of the Republicans, where he said, if they don't act, he's gonna do it on his own because somebody's got to do something because it's a crisis, right?
He said he acknowledged congressional Republicans are patriots.
They love their country, they love their families, they just have a flawed theory of the economy, they just can't seem to get past.
And once again, here came his definition of the flawed theory of economies that Republicans have.
The flawed theory is they believe in tax cuts for the rich.
They want to eliminate regulations on big banks or polluters, and they want to get rid of the safety net for the middle class.
That's Republican economic policy.
Tax cuts for the rich, get rid of eliminations on uh regulations on banks, and get rid of welfare.
Now, let me tell you something about eliminating regulations on banks.
There was a piece of legislation that had been around for decades in this country called Glass Steagall.
And without going into great detail, what Glass Steagle did was keep certain types of banking separate.
Commercial banks over here where you put your money in and write checks on it, blah, blah, blah, separate.
Investment banks over here, i.e., banks that invest, take money, and invest in things, grow, whatever, where the hedge fund guys would be the Goldman Sachses of the world.
Bill Clinton came along, a well-known Democrat, and eliminated, they they they repealed Glass-Steagall.
They simply got rid of it.
It we it was the thing that kept certain types of banking separate.
When Glass Steagall was repealed, is the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis where commercial banks could start behaving like investment banks and vice versa.
And if anybody eliminated regulations on the it wasn't the Republicans, it was good old Bill Clinton.
And Robert Rubin.
Those are the two architects you can even say that the repeal of Glass-Steagall is what led to the so-called financial crisis in 2008.
And there's not a Republican fingerprint on it.
It's all Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin.
Look, folks, I am sorry to be shouting here.
I have most of the day.
It's just one of those days where everything that I hear coming out of the mouths of these people is blowing my gaskets.
And I got plenty of gaskets left, don't worry.
But this is just insane.
The level of lying, the misinformation, and the stupidity of people who accept it and buy it because we have a corrupt media who is willing or unknowing, could well be they're ignorant too, spreading all this dribble.
Republicans want to eliminate regulations on banks.
Take a look at Obama's donor list.
You'll find every banker in New York on it.
Except maybe a couple.
It's just absurd here.
If I look at all of the waivers in Obamacare, all big-time Democrat, bankers and otherwise, who donated to Obama and love hanging around the guy.
He's one of the best friends of Democrat parties.
Look at it's stupid.
What was it?
Dodd Frank bill.
That compounded the errors of repealing Glass-Stiegel.
Now, Glass-Steagall was really complicated.
I mean, it did a whole bunch of things, but one of the things it did was separate the various types of banking.
And when that was repealed, then you talk about eliminating regulation.
I just want you to know there's not one Republican fingerprint on that.
They might have voted for it in the Andover Cup, but the whole impetus for it was Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin.
It is the fastest.
Three hours in media.
Time flies here on the EIB network like it does nowhere else.
See it while you can.
Meaning, see America while you can.
Now, one of the things I was trying to say in the mention of the movie, it's not just a one-sided thing.
I mean, D'Souza loves the country, believes that this world would be a profoundly different, darker, worse place without America.
And he goes out and he talks to these Nimrods who think the U.S. is the problem, that hate capitalism, that think our Military is evil.
We're a bunch of imperial colonialists.
And you see for yourself who they are in their natural habitat.
He doesn't go to them.
He just asks them questions and they just launch.
And if you have any sense of decency, you will realize you do not want people like that running this country.
Why would you want somebody who does not believe in it running it?
See America while you still can.
Here's uh here's Frank in Pittsburgh.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey Rush, how are you doing, buddy?
Pretty good.
I love your program.
I've been listening for a long, long time.
Um, even when you were in working in Pittsburgh, I was listening to you.
So I'm an oldie like you.
Man, you're going, you're going back to this.
You're going back to the Steelers 70s, if you remember me working in Jetson.
It's America's sports.
Yep.
And what's making me absolutely puke is this love fest for this soccer sport that the last couple weeks.
And I'll tell you why, and I'm a little nervous if you can just bear with me.
Okay, but let me ask you a question.
Is it does it that this love fest as you did really make you that sick?
Does it really bother you that much?
Yes, it does, because it's media, it's liberal media driven.
The media absolutely hates American football, and I'll tell you why.
If you look at the paper, if you look in the news, it's always a war on football.
They're always reporting bad news.
It's concussions, it's the Redskins name, it's some player uh getting arrested in the bar, and it's big money.
And the liberals hate that.
And they want us to be just like the rest of the world and love soccer.
And that's their motive.
Well, let me tackle some of this because I understand, I understand how you feel.
One bit of news before I respond directly.
You know, there was it is out of the blue a couple of weeks ago.
The U.S. Patent Trademark Office stripped the Washington Redskins of their trademark.
Which means that Barack Obama did it.
The Barack Obama administration, not the Patent and Trademark Office, the Obama administration stripped the Redskins of their property.
The Redskins legally own the trademark, the logo to the name Washington Redskins.
And the Obama administration just came in and said, you don't anymore.
You can't have it.
Now they have to appeal this.
It's totally against the law for the regime to do what they did.
They've now forced the Redskins into a defensive position like every one of us is in every day.
And if the ruling comes down someday that Dan Snyder and the Redskins do indeed get to hold on to their trademark, we're all gonna celebrate.
And what are we celebrating?
That we barely hung on to something in.
It's just it's the same thing with this hobby lobby ruling.
But here's the thing.
This decision by the administrative law board at the Patent and Trademark Office canceled the Redskins trademark registrations, despite the fact they had not received one complaint.
Not one complaint.
They had not received a single letter from a member of the public complaining about the name Washington Redskins.
The Washington Times did a Freedom of Information Act request investigation, and they found that the trademark trial and appeal board, part of the Patent of Trademark Office, ruled last month that the name was disparaging to American Indians.
So they wanted to find well who complained.
And the answer is nobody.
The agency does not have a single letter.
There is not a single record of correspondence from the public about the Redskins name one way or the other.
Pratt.
*sniff*
Prior to the June 18th route, there are no letters to lose here.
Not like the IRS.
There are no emails, there are no letters And nothing to lose.
Nobody complained.
The Obama administration just did it.
They can't do that, folks.
They simply can't take someone's private property.
The Redskins own it.
I don't care what you think of it.
The Redskins own it.
And I'll tell you something else.
If they take this name away, it's going to open the trademark.
If they lose this, if the Redskins lose this, you know what the end result of this is?
Anybody can use Redskins.
It's going to be more widespread than ever after this.
If there are people offended by it now, they have no idea what's coming if this if this theft is upheld.
Because it means that anybody, you go to Redskin Cafe, you go to McRedskins if you want and get some McRedskin fries.
I mean, it'll be overware.
You'll be in the Wild West out there all over again.
Redskins everywhere.
Then you'll have the Cavalry fast food restaurant across the street from the Redskin restaurant.
And then you'll have the uh reservation stopping shop.
You wait.
It's going to be everywhere.
These do-gooders think they're going to be eliminating it.
It's going to show up everywhere.
And it's going to get so big they're not going to be able to repeal it everywhere and be out of control.
I saw, was reading a piece.
I went to the ESBN website.
I don't know why.
I think I was just bored.
So I went there just to see if there was anything new in the NFL.
This is the dead time of the year in the NFL.
It's the month before training camps.
And it was a sports writer who was uh, you know what?
We one thing we writers don't really know about is economics.
So, whoa, I'm going to read the rest of this.
You do not see admissions like that.
And the piece was about how much it would cost the Redskins to change their name.
It would be multiple millions of dollars that they alone would have to absorb.
The league could get out of absorbing any of it.
And well, they were afraid, the journalists were afraid that the high cost of changing name might be problematic for those who want them to change the name.
It's one thing to get rid of the name, but to force massive millions of dollars of losses that they can't share or spread across the league, well.
So they think they've got even more problems in getting a name changed.
Now I asked for this soccer business.
Look, there's no question the left in this country idealizes Europe.
Frank in Pittsburgh is right about that.
And there's very little question that they've got a real football as a target.
And the news out of foot, but they're stigmatizing the game.
It's about concussions now, and it's about it's about brutal uh treatment of the players, and it's about all kinds of things.
Um they're taking the ingredients of fandom out of it.
Slowly but surely, people start watching football.
They're gonna be looking at entirely different things than they used to.
It's just not, it's just it's they're they're politicizing it, like they do everything.
And it is true, I mean, we have we started a uh a charity group way back in the early 90s called Keep Our Own Kids Safe.
Kooks.
That was intended to show the dangers of playing soccer.
The level of concussion that nobody associates with that game.
You watch one of these World Cup games, you see the number of people writhing on the ground in abject pain, and the game goes on.
This is one of the most unfeeling games I've ever seen.
These guys can be able to broken leg and they don't stop the game.
They just keep playing, just walk right over the injured player.
Because the game must go on.
Soccer clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
Nobody gets hurt.
It's safe for the kids to play and so forth, but it's got its own problem.
But it is European.
John Kerry loves the game almost as much as he loves kite surfing.
It's uh but I'd say it may be a bit a bit far to say they hate football and so forth.
But they they've clearly zeroed in on it as a target to advance their agenda.
The agenda could be boiled down to simple.
Government gets bigger and controls as much as possible.
And if the NFL is not gonna control concussions, if the NFL is not gonna protect his players, if the NFL is not gonna make sure it pays players to get hurt for every if it may the governments must step in.
And that's the agenda.
And in order to facilitate that, you've got to convince as many people as possible this game is no different than a car accident waiting to happen.
And on the other hand, soccer's safe, clean, pure, no pads, no uniforms, just t-shirts and shorts.
The same thing you wear when you're on a marathon.
What could go wrong?
That's kind of funny.
Folks, look, I I will uh acknowledge it's kind of weird that this love of soccer just came out of nowhere.
Kind of like the arrival of the unaccompanied children from Central America, just out of nowhere, it seems.
And it happened.
But did you hear about what happened in suburban Detroit?
A soccer referee was punched in the head by a player during a weekend game, and he has now died.
The referee is dead.
Police made the announcement uh, let's see, yesterday.
John Bienowitz, 44 was about to eject a player from a recreational game at a park in Lavonia, Michigan.
We own Lavonia, Michigan, by the way.
On Sunday, when he was hit and critically injured.
Basel Abdul Amir Sahad, 36, charged on Monday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm by Wayne County prosecutors.
His bond was set at half million dollars and a court appearance on Monday.
It's a very tragic accident, said the attorney who represents the defendant.
It was an accidental punch to the head with enough force to kill the uh referee.
Probably mad, the Redskins name.
Who knows?
Here's uh uh uh uh uh uh Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hey Rush, it's Joanne of Virginia Beach.
Joanne, how are you?
I'm doing fine.
I know it's not one of your fan ten favorite names, which is my why you stumbled on it.
But No, wait, that was not up there.
It just says Virginia Beach.
Okay.
And I know that's not your name.
No.
Um I saw in the uh DC Gazette.
It's so insidious.
Obama made it possible for these children to come into this country illegally.
The DC Gazette.
Right.
There's a story in there.
There's a story in there about the the health care, the workers that are in there, um, they're their cell phones are being taken away from them.
They're not allowed, they're not supposed to talk to the people who are on the camp.
These kids are loaded with with diseases that we pretty much eradicated, but they're coming back because we don't, we're not using LS Island anymore.
I know.
I saw that story.
I saw that story, and I made mention of it earlier, and the people, the doctors and nurses and everybody are refused, they're they're being told they cannot report what they're discovering.
They're being really intimidated.
Some of them are anyway, which is how we know this.
Joanne, I appreciate the call.
I gotta go, folks, almost out of time.
Don't go away.
Sadly, my friends, we are out.
A busy broadcast time for today.
However, we're back tomorrow.
I tell you what, we're gonna do, since uh we've got a best of show on Independence Day, well worth your time to listen, but we'll still do open line Friday tomorrow.
Open line Friday and Thursday, uh, as we end another classic broadcast week.
Thank you so much for being here.
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